Old PilotManager News Items

2005/4/10

PilotManager 1.108 is out, only six years after the previous
release! This version contains a great number of bug fixes and a few
minor improvements. A complete list of changes can be found in the ChangeLog. The most crucial ones are:

Fixed a bug in several conduits that caused major data loss if
the connection to the pilot was lost during a sync.

Compatibility with pilot-link 0.12.0-pre2. Among other
benefits, this brings libusb support, which means you can finally sync
via USB on Solaris. Compatibility with pilot-link 0.11.8 is
maintained; if you don't need the new features of 0.12.0-pre2, I
recommend that you wait for the official 0.12.0 release before
upgrading pilot-link.

If you are upgrading from an earlier version of PilotManager, please
read at least the "UPGRADING" section of the installation notes.

[Update: this patch is no longer necessary with more
recent versions of PilotManager.]

Who wants this patch?

Everyone with a PalmOS 3.5 device and a Sun/Solaris desktop will
probably want it.
It is particularly helpful to people who have perl 5.003
(who can't sync at all), but for people with newer versions of perl
it will also get rid of the "Error backing up ''" message from
the backup conduit.

I have only done testing on sun/solaris so I don't know if this
problem exists at all for linux users...

What is the patch?

Here it is:
Shutdown pilotmgr, then change these lines in PilotMgr.pm:

Use a text editor to edit the file "PilotMgr.pm".
For example, open a terminal window and use the "cd" command to change
directories to your "pilotmgr" directory. On solaris/CDE you could then
type "dtpad PilotMgr.pm" to bring up a text editor.

Search for the string "Refreshing Database List" to help you find the
right section of the file.. it is around line 2650.

Change the lines as shown above, save your changes and then restart
PilotManager.

Thanks to Arthur Black for loaning me his Palm Vx so I could figure
this out.
(Note: the root cause of the problem is still unknown.. the
patch above is really just a workaround)

7/13/2000

New conduit: SyncBBDB written by Thomas DeWeese. This conduit synchronizes the
Palm address book with the BBDB address book for Emacs. [Update:
external link removed because SyncBBDB is now part of
the PilotManager distribution.]

Dinesh Dutt has extended the SyncAB conduit with some support for
BBDB. [Update: Thomas DeWeese's SyncBBDB is now the supported conduit for
syncing with BBDB. Dinesh's conduit has been moved into
contrib/dinesh-dutt.

1/4/2000

Y2K status: so far no major problems, just one cosmetic/display bug.
Dates in the status window show "100" as the year instead of "00" or "2000".
The simple patch below will fix this:

Pilot crashes with SyncTime and PalmOS 3.3.
This is either a PalmOS bug or api change.. I recommend not using SyncTime
with PalmOS 3.3 until a new OS patch is released by 3com or a
workaround/update is implemented for SyncTime.
(I don't think it works with PalmOS 3.5 either)

4/21/99

Update to SyncMail conduit to support mail files without the
Content-Length header field.
Conduit located in contrib/mark-giles.

Bugfix to PilotSync module (used by SyncAB and SyncFood).
Fixes Not a hash ref errors when merging modified
records.